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There's a party going on right here
A celebration to last troughout the years.
So bring your good times and your laughter too
We're gonna celebrate your party with you !

Come on now

Ce-le-bra-tion!

Let's all celebrate and have a good time

Celebration
We gonna celebrate and have a good time.

Ah, if only the Pep Band, High Octane, or the Jumbotron could assist! (IMHO, singing along to this would beat "Sweet Caroline" all to hell)

All and any additional suggestions and contributions welcomed!

This is going to be mostly contructive criticism, so I apologize in advance.

On number one, that's something I wanted to post about before tomorrow night. Specifically the speed of our chants, we usually go way too fast. Even on the "let's go pacers" chant we usually start at a decent speed LETS...GO...PACERS but end up ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers. Ideally you want to be able to take a quick breath in between each word, and that will get the rest of the arena to join in. They won't go blue in the face to complete those quick chants like we will.

Number 4: please no... the SAT, STD, whatever chants just sound like we're chanting MVP with the rest of their folks. I was in section 1 in game 3 last season and A55 was doing the SAT chant at Rose and a guy next to me asked why Area 55 was saying MVP. Only people who knew what they were saying were Area 55 and a few people on here who were in on the joke.

And finally, I'd like to do away with the "Who Cares" thing we do during intros in games like this. Against Toronto in February, it's cool. But once again, it's a case of people not knowing what we're saying except the section right next to us because the rest of the arena is so loud with cheers from their crowd and boos from ours. In a game like this we need to just boo. We don't always have to have a chant for EVERYTHING.

Otherwise, some good ideas there, Joe. Gotta add something in there along the lines of "Playoff Choker".

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

This is going to be mostly contructive criticism, so I apologize in advance.

No apologies necessary. All thoughts, ideas, criticisms welcomed. The main idea is to gin up noise in BLF. My thinking is we try all kinds of things and then go with what works best. Simple stuff like LET'S (PAUSE) GO (PAUSE) PACERS! is best for the crowd in general. But we can also be creative too.

I'd like to think we can come up with a few things that can make the Heat look a tad ridiculous.

Remember, we'll likely have High Octane working with us. So some simple chants can be taken up and reinforced with drumming immediately.

Seems like we ought to be able to get on LeBron about his hairline some way. I loved our old "He's Got a Bird's Nest on His Head Chant" for Varajao. Maybe, for LeBron (who's sensitive about his hairline) we could do "He's Got No Hair on His Head"

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

This is going to be mostly contructive criticism, so I apologize in advance.

On number one, that's something I wanted to post about before tomorrow night. Specifically the speed of our chants, we usually go way too fast. Even on the "let's go pacers" chant we usually start at a decent speed LETS...GO...PACERS but end up ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers. Ideally you want to be able to take a quick breath in between each word, and that will get the rest of the arena to join in. They won't go blue in the face to complete those quick chants like we will.

Number 4: please no... the SAT, STD, whatever chants just sound like we're chanting MVP with the rest of their folks. I was in section 1 in game 3 last season and A55 was doing the SAT chant at Rose and a guy next to me asked why Area 55 was saying MVP. Only people who knew what they were saying were Area 55 and a few people on here who were in on the joke.

And finally, I'd like to do away with the "Who Cares" thing we do during intros in games like this. Against Toronto in February, it's cool. But once again, it's a case of people not knowing what we're saying except the section right next to us because the rest of the arena is so loud with cheers from their crowd and boos from ours. In a game like this we need to just boo. We don't always have to have a chant for EVERYTHING.

Otherwise, some good ideas there, Joe. Gotta add something in there along the lines of "Playoff Choker".

Agree 100%. No need to go with joke or mocking chants. No one gets them but us. Of course, I fully endorse clever comments being screamed when the Fieldhouse gets a little quiet.

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

Hmmm...Maybe we could have Kielbeze give them a basket of fruit when they come out for warm-ups or have a pizza delivered to them at half-time. Kill em with luv.

I hear ya, Bill. But I think we need to diss them non-stop. If they get fired up, so be it. I just want our crowd fired up.

This is a little tongue in cheek by the way, but only a little. I'd say fire up the crowd with pro-Pacers chants when we have the ball. Get the crowd into trying to lull Miami to sleep. Imagine 18,000 fans singing "rock a bye baby"...

BillS

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

One thing I always thought you guys should work with the Drum Corps on is making a non-rhythmic count during FTs. Counting bounces helps a rhythm, if you could just be slightly off what the guy is doing it might be really disruptive.

BillS

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

The one consolation -- no matter what Area 55 does Thursday -- is that it will be better than anything seen or heard in Miami.

To quote from a NY Knicks Blog:

"Miami fans are the worst. We saw the shirts on the empty chairs. Also, learn ONE other chant other than "LETS GO HEAT". I swear the only other chant I heard was "MVP" for LeBron, which they strangely chanted after a ball got thrown in his face."

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

The one consolation -- no matter what Area 55 does Thursday -- is that it will be better than anything seen or heard in Miami.

To quote from a NY Knicks Blog:

"Miami fans are the worst. We saw the shirts on the empty chairs. Also, learn ONE other chant other than "LETS GO HEAT". I swear the only other chant I heard was "MVP" for LeBron, which they strangly chanted after a ball got thrown in his face."

Thats not true, they also have REF YOU SUCK.

"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

This is going to be mostly contructive criticism, so I apologize in advance.

On number one, that's something I wanted to post about before tomorrow night. Specifically the speed of our chants, we usually go way too fast. Even on the "let's go pacers" chant we usually start at a decent speed LETS...GO...PACERS but end up ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers..ltsgopcers. Ideally you want to be able to take a quick breath in between each word, and that will get the rest of the arena to join in. They won't go blue in the face to complete those quick chants like we will.

Number 4: please no... the SAT, STD, whatever chants just sound like we're chanting MVP with the rest of their folks. I was in section 1 in game 3 last season and A55 was doing the SAT chant at Rose and a guy next to me asked why Area 55 was saying MVP. Only people who knew what they were saying were Area 55 and a few people on here who were in on the joke.

And finally, I'd like to do away with the "Who Cares" thing we do during intros in games like this. Against Toronto in February, it's cool. But once again, it's a case of people not knowing what we're saying except the section right next to us because the rest of the arena is so loud with cheers from their crowd and boos from ours. In a game like this we need to just boo. We don't always have to have a chant for EVERYTHING.

Otherwise, some good ideas there, Joe. Gotta add something in there along the lines of "Playoff Choker".

All good points. I think for intros we just start right off the back with a bang and go with BEAT THE HEAT
this way we get the arena loud and drown out any cheers that bandwagoners may bring!

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

All good points. I think for intros we just start right off the back with a bang and go with BEAT THE HEAT
this way we get the arena loud and drown out any cheers that bandwagoners may bring!

It'll be loud all right. I remember a Pacers-Celtics Playoff game in Market Square eons ago. I was in the nosebleeds and the noise level from the chanting actually made the seats up there vibrate. Larry Bird said afterwards that if the Boston fans were half as loud as Indiana's, the Celtic would never lose a game.

Re: Area 55 Season Thread 2011-2012

Crowd needs to be on the OFFICIALS in this game. It has been proven that fans affect officials way more than the players. And the standard "these refs suck", won't due. If the officiating becomes attrocious, a "this game's rigged" would have a much more resonance with officials whose conspiracy has long surrounded. Area 55 should make BLF a hard place to make calls against the Pacers in.

Also, a "you should be suspended" chant for Wade would be amazing....

"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.